Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who brokered the 2015 Paris Agreement, has had enough. “I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong,” declares the headline of a powerful article she published on July 6 in Al Jazeera. Coming from such a mainstream climate luminary, Figueres’s change of heart cries out for follow […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “When heat comes, it’s invisible,” opens Jeff Goodell’s new book, The Heat Will Kill You First. The veteran journalist and Rolling Stone correspondent makes a searing case that most of us think about extreme heat all wrong, and to disastrous effect. Like his previous book, The Water Will […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter The heat has come for China. Beijing saw a three-day stretch of over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) last week. Temperatures in Shandong, a populous grain-growing province in the country’s north, prompted heat stroke warnings. Continued burning of fossil fuels is often seen as imperative to growing […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Covering Climate Now is pleased this week to announce the finalists for the 2023 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, now in its third year, honoring the best coverage from around the world of the climate emergency and its solutions. A panel of distinguished judges selected 76 finalists […]
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The global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now today announced 76 finalists for the annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. In its third year, the awards program honors the world’s best coverage of the climate emergency and its solutions. With climate change inflicting record heat across Asia, deadly drought in eastern Africa, and dangerous orange […]
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As the world lurches toward climate action, leaders often hail opportunities for justice and equity. Less often, however, do we see either of these principles in practice. What would it look like to bring the climate story down to earth—and moreover to center our stories on those who are most vulnerable? Nina Lakhani is the […]
The 2023 Atlantic Hurricane season started on June 1. El Niño, the weather pattern that warms tropical waters in the Pacific Ocean, began on June 7. Globally, sea surface temperatures have spiked, reaching a record high in April, a foreboding reminder that Earth’s oceans have absorbed roughly 90% of the excess heat produced by humanity’s […]
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Wildfire smoke from Canada turned the skies over New York City a deeply unhealthy orange and gray on Wednesday as climate change continues to ravage more and more of the planet. Since many of the world’s news organizations have journalists based in New York, this could be a pivotal moment in media coverage of the […]
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Faced with a climate emergency, journalists should not keep reporting news the same old way. That’s the thinking behind a path-breaking innovation in climate journalism launched this March in France, where the national public broadcaster, France Télévisions, is dramatically changing how it reports on weather. And since weather is a staple of news coverage the […]
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